Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Izzy Award-Winners Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman

Soon after accepting their Izzy Awards in Ithaca, NY in March 2009, Greenwald and Goodman spoke about independent media with Bill Moyers.

Nonprofit online news sites...

. . .have sprouted as local dailies have shrunk. These nonprofits include the
well-funded VoiceofSanDiego.org and the professionally-staffed MinnPost -- "a thoughtful approach to news."

Blogger Glenn Greenwald explains...

Journalism 101 to a CNN correspondent, in a debate over WikiLeaks.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Are young people...

raised on the Internet, LESS likely to be taken in by hoax emails such as Obama as "radical Muslim" than Jon Stewart's 80-year-old aunt?

Short Indy Video Impacts 2008 Election

This 2008 Brave New Films video short "McCain's Mansions" (with over 600,000 views) boiled up through the media food chain to become part of the mainstream diet. It impacted the campaign, as shown by this self-promotional video, "The Making of McCain's Mansions."

Does the need for access to newsmaker sources...

...undermine unfettered journalism? Yes, says indy TV host Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, one of the most successful web-based TV shows.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Top CNN Executive Admits...

...to giving the Pentagon an advisory role on who its on-air experts would be during the controversial Iraq war.